Any idea why I would get this error after installing the plugin and attempting a restart?

I'm running v0.7.17, and no I can't upgrade to the latest version at the moment...

You need a more recent version of Calibre. The main plugin thread says 0.7.34 is needed for the plugins so I assume it wasn't until then that plugins were fully supported, at least the way we're using them. I've only tested on 7.40.

Hopefully you can upgrade and try again, if there isn't an issue causing you not to upgrade.

Would it be possible to create collections only by certain tags from a list? (e.g. Non-fiction, Romance, Classic literature, Fantasy, …) and leave all other tags aside?

You can set it up to include tags, and then define a list of tags to ignore. Now, this works well if you only have a few to ignore, but I know every time I download tags from the net I get a ton of them that I usually cleanup. But if you keep them or use a lot, then this might not be the best way.

I'll give some thought to adding an include only certain tags option along with the ignore certain tags option.

I had the same issue. I guess the header is corrupt or in a format the code can't understand. I just ran a convert Mobi to Mobi on the file in Calibre and resent it to the device and the plugin no longer gives me a warning and it shows up in a collection.

I assume you got a Warning dialog stating that the Mobi format was corrupt when running the plugin?

Yes, I got the warning. I was so excited I forgot to mention that. Another user mentioned some Baen books that got left out on theirs. I'm willing to bet the books that get left out have the same problem that you suspect - .prc mobi files with bad headers. Maybe add something to the first post about doing prc>mobi conversions on any "problem" files that pop up.

I know I'm repeating myself here, but your plugin is amazing. Nearly every solution prior to this had problems, usually with Amazon-embedded ASINS. Yours does not have this issue.

It didn't take as long as I thought it would to wrangle the Active Content and dictionaries after restarting the Kindle. If you can find a way to work with them, great, but if not, it's not as much of a problem as I expected it to be.

Looks like many of the problems users are running into so far are syntax issues in the tweaks, which is common. I did so myself the second test run, but I spotted the problem immediately. It's so easy to leave out a comma, or miss a period in a pattern entry. The thing is, how often do most people change the way they set up their collections? I'm not a good example, because I tend to tweak my organizational systems till they scream; most people probably find a system they like and stick with it. Once they get it working properly, they're done for a while. While I was initially in favor of a GUI, I now prefer the flexibility of the tweak method instead, because I've started to fully appreciate the ability to use user-created columns and the "ignore" options. It allows a rather extensive configuration to be created that would be hard to easily capture in a GUI interface. I didn't really "get it" until I started playing with it.

Just a thought - Since some people would probably prefer a GUI, perhaps two versions? A "tweak" version for power users and a GUI version with basic options for those who prefer it - the common "author, tag, series" options with minimums, perhaps.

Just a thought - Since some people would probably prefer a GUI, perhaps two versions? A "tweak" version for power users and a GUI version with basic options for those who prefer it - the common "author, tag, series" options with minimums, perhaps.

Since I am kinda slow at this stuff, the GUI version would be great for me. And much appreciated, as all of everyone's work is.

You need a more recent version of Calibre. The main plugin thread says 0.7.34 is needed for the plugins so I assume it wasn't until then that plugins were fully supported, at least the way we're using them. I've only tested on 7.40.

Hopefully you can upgrade and try again, if there isn't an issue causing you not to upgrade.

Ah OK. I thought I had an older version of Qt on my system, but when I checked I found I have Qt 4.6 (forgot I had updated my KDE a few months ago) so I was able to upgrade to the latest Calibre v0.7.43 no problem.

Your plugin works great! I had no problem tweaking the settings to only create collections for series or authors with 3 or more books in them.

I have about 400 Books and a multitude of tags. I usually download "social metadata" and keep the tags. I just add my own tags.

Would it be possible to create collections only by certain tags from a list? (e.g. Non-fiction, Romance, Classic literature, Fantasy, …) and leave all other tags aside?

imo tags are a lot easier to edit than custom columns, but i do tag about contents that i would not create my collections on.

I've been thinking about your issue but I can't think of an easy way to do what you would like to do. In my case, I have 66 total unique tags, but only 48 that I wanted collections from. Rather than editing the metadata for the individual books, I appended "-nocollect" (could be -nc or even -n) to the tags I didn't want collections for (from the tag browser - right-click>rename) and added that as an ends-with pattern in the ignore list. This worked for me, but if you have a significant number of "unwanted" tags it could be tedious.

I know you prefer not to use custom columns, but if you did add a custom "genre" column, you could then filter your list to the books already containing "Romance" tag, for example, and edit the custom metadata for all of those in one go. Still tedious, but at least you'd be working with groups of books rather than individual books.

My suggestions may be no help at all, and you may have already considered all of this, but I just thought I'd throw it out there.

Could you give an example of how you want your collections to look or how your title's look.

The plugin can create a collection for any name found in the authors column, any series name found in the series column, any word(s) found in most columns.

George Lucas ------------------------------ collection name by authors
˫Star Wars 1- The Phantom Menace --- series name+
˫Star Wars 2- Attack of the Clones ----- series number+
˫Star Wars 3- Revenge of the Sith ------ book title = Titles of books in the collections

Kindle displays only the book title and author of series are not consecutive, need sorting books within collections by series and series number . To do this, add to the title of a book series title with a number.

I just want to add my thanks. This Plug-in has been brilliant, and the tweaks work perfectly, allowing me to make the exact collections I want. As I have over 900 novels on the kindle this has saved me alot of time. Thanks again

I eliminated the space as it confused my k3 which would no longer do the go to beginning of "k" or "s" ... trick if some of the files were - title rather than -title when in title mode.

I also chose to use characters that would sort in the same order whether I was creating a collection for a kindle with firmware 2.5 or 3.0 as I had previously discovered that they didn't prioritize special characters the same.

The minute plus for the collection manager to run & the several minutes for the kindle to re-start are nothing compared to manually creating collections.

I'm quite content with making changes using tweaks rather than a gui, but that's just me.

Kindle displays only the book title and author of series are not consecutive, need sorting books within collections by series and series number . To do this, add to the title of a book series title with a number.

Sorry for my English writing through a translator.

Ah. This is exactly what I do. You need to use another amazing feature of Calibre called a "plugboard".

I eliminated the space as it confused my k3 which would no longer do the go to beginning of "k" or "s" ... trick if some of the files were - title rather than -title when in title mode.

Interesting to know about the go to beginning trick (I've used search, but not jump to the beginning - do you do anything special to do this?)

I see you used "_" and "__" - I originally had this and wasn't sure about the indents. Maybe I'll add it as an example, and also remove the spaces from examples since they're easy for people to add in and not easy to see onscreen.

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I also chose to use characters that would sort in the same order whether I was creating a collection for a kindle with firmware 2.5 or 3.0 as I had previously discovered that they didn't prioritize special characters the same.

This is an awesome tool, thanks very much for this. AFAIK, the previous GUI tools only ran on windows, and my collections were simply not important enough to me to fire up my vm on my Mac

I was able to get my series into collections successfully (I commented it out below 'cos I'm trying to work on the samples), but I have had no luck with my custom columns. Like others have mentioned, I have way too many tags to create collections based that way, so I'm trying to create custom columns for the tags I care about. For example, I have a tag for "sample", so I created a text based custom column, that I set to "sample", if a book had that tag. My tweaks are copied & pasted below. If I comment out all but the "sample" column, I get an error that no collections were created.